Dr Brundtland urged countries to work together to fight diseases Global health chiefs have urged countries around the world to be on alert for new killer diseases. The World Health Organization has warned that new diseases could spread in the wake of the deadly Sars virus.
Even if it is not SARS at this hospital, it should be more alert & quick to act & report flu killer diseases, right? Officials have urged governments to work more closely together to try to deal with the threat.
The call was made at the WHO's annual assembly of its 192 member states in Geneva on Monday.
'More outbreaks'
Dr David Heymann, head of its communicable diseases unit, suggested fresh outbreaks of deadly viruses were almost inevitable.
"There will be more outbreaks like SARS, there's bound to be more," he told journalists.
There will be more outbreaks like SARS -Dr David Heymann
Well, could this SARS-like disease be one of these?
He said the biggest threat would be an outbreak of a deadly strain of influenza. "The big concern is influenza," he said.
The last flu pandemic in 1919 claimed 40 million lives across the globe.